FARM AND STATION VERSE
Sir-I would like to thank your readers for their encouraging response to my appeal for co-operation in compiling an Anthology of New Zealand Farm and Station Verse. Some really good country verse, proper sheepman’s verse, has been sent in, but there are still many gaps in the collection. Several people have written about shearing, undoubtedly the peak of the station year, but to make the picture complete we need descriptions of mustering, ‘snow-raking, lambing, weaning, drafting, dipping, and I am sure that many farmers would wish to add footrotting. No tribute has been paid to the musterer’s dog or the station hack. The old buggies and pairs have not been mentioned, nor the wagon teams, either, horse or bullock; the backblocks mailman; fencing; stock or wool sales. Little has been written of harvesting, and no one has been inspired to write of tractors or other farm machinery. All honour has been paid to the pioneer grandmother, but none to her granddaughter, who during the war stepped unhesitatingly into the sometimes quite unaccustomed shoes — or more correctly boots and heavy ones at that-of husband or brother and helped to carry on the farm until its men came home. I will be grateful therefore for any further poems that will help to make this book really representative of life on our farms. and stations from the earliest times until the present day.
A. E.
WOODHOUSE
Blue Cliffs Station, St. Andrews, South Canterbury.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 486, 15 October 1948, Page 5
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244FARM AND STATION VERSE New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 486, 15 October 1948, Page 5
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